I am trying to connect many pipes together to create only one polysurface. I’ve tried join, merge, boolean union,and group and none of them work. Is there any way in which I could select all my surfaces (all the pipes are joined together by spheres) and make them one. I am so insistent in creating only one poly surface because I think it would reduce the load on the program. Currently rhino isn’t able to process the amount of surfaces and stops working or works extremely slow. Thanks!
Can you post the file?
How many surfaces are we talking about? What are the specs of your PC? Post a screenshot of the OpenGL settings under Rhino Options > View.
What is the final aim of this exercise? Perhaps you could just extract the render meshes and decrease the load on your PC that way?
It´s an acer aspire R with Intel Core i5-6200U Dual-core 2.3 GHz CPU and 8GB of RAM. The aim is to be able to print it in 3D. I´ll send you the file by mail because its too heavy.
El pulmon + piola.7z
https://drive.google.com/a/bedes.com.ar/file/d/1ZpTAKG5cusW2XJeyFaPTF3JMcBdtKwrg/view?usp=drive_web
It has 21716 surfaces and 5429 polysurfaces.
Thank you for your help!
Hello @mcastineiras If your intention is to print it, don’t bother about joining that amazing amount of surfaces, just export them as STL or Obj file and then maket it solid in meshmixer.
If using other software doesn’t help you, it can be done in rhino as well butis a little more time consuming working with meshes.